Arrgh, my apologies, everyone. Despite being the reporter, I have not been receiving any messages on this thread save for those Cc'ed to me.
I have re-subscribed to my own bug and will hopefully not miss any further updates. On Sat, 2018 Oct 27 22:53+0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > That it's a bug in just that one package is good because if halt > sometimes does its work by indirecting via init(8) and > /etc/init.d/halt, then it is more convenient to improve the > communication if both things are in the same package. Certainly. I'm not clear on how the communication was originally intended to work, but what's there now does not appear to support the expected behavior (or documented behavior, at least for one reasonable interpretation of the docs). The /run solution sounds quite reasonable to me. --Daniel
